Exodus 3: Hallelujah! The First Lesson in the Bible was about How to Pray
The Bible started on Mount Horeb when God appeared to Moses. Of course, I believe that Mount Horeb was the state of Moses' mind in meditation, but still, no appearance - no Bible. Moses learned a lot in the ensuing days, months, and years before composing the Book of Exodus, and those things were incorporated in it. The first lesson in Moses' experience with God was about how to pray.
What tipped me off to Exodus 3 (below) being a lesson on prayer was the word 'brought' in verse 17. In Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic (the only place it occurs!), God directs Moses: "And you shall tell them that He brought you out of the enslavement of the Egyptians to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, to the land that flows with milk and honey" (emphasis mine). Moses was being sent TO the children of Israel in Egypt (the flesh), and from the get-go he was to tell them that God had BROUGHT them--past or past perfect tense--that they are IN "the land that flows with milk and honey," the perfect country.
This brought to mind Abdullah telling Neville Goddard, when Neville had told him that he wanted to visit his family home in Barbados, "You are in Barbados." "I am IN Barbados?" Neville asked incredulously. "Yes. You are IN Barbados, and you went there first class!" Penniless (literally) Neville was perplexed, but agreed to go to sleep each night believing that he was in (literally) Barbados. Neville's brother then happened to want Neville to be at the family home for Christmas that year, and arranged fare and sent expenses for it to happen. Neville's only "work" was to believe that it WAS. I don't find anything like this thinking-from-the-end in any other Bible.
Then I noticed the "you shall memorialize this memorial, of all that He has done for you in Egypt," in verse 16. All that God had done for them in Egypt was cruel slavery, yet He says, "Memorialize this memorial"!! That is the premise and core of Merlyn Carothers' teaching in Prison to Praise and Power in Praise--that God has us where we are for the fulfilling of the Promise. In prison? PRAISE HIM FOR IT; FOR YOU CAN ONLY GET "THERE" FROM "HERE," WHICH HE HAS ARRANGED THROUGH YOU. You are not going anywhere at all until you turn to Him in faith and praise. Memorialize your "here"-- note it, and believe you have been brought "there." I don't find anything like this appreciation in any other Bible.
Moses was being sent to the Children of Israel--all that stuff in the Book of Genesis. I believe the Book of Genesis is about what Moses learned about himself after this event in Exodus. This is an esoteric, symbolic spiritual-value way of looking at the Scriptures. The only person in Genesis is Moses, the germ of God's revelation of Himself in us. Moses is an everyman -- me and/or you. The other people are attitudes we have. Jacob is our inner man, and Israel's children are our God-directed thoughts. Telling the Children of Israel is CONTROLLED, PURPOSEFUL THINKING. YHWH (Jehovah) is God's action among us. Elohim is His imagination (which also happens to be us). Note the "ancestors" and "God-of's" in verses 6, 13, 15, and 16. Abraham was Moses' realization that he was the expression of the Merciful Father, our underlying Godhood. Isaac--Laughter--is the state of fulfillment of God's promise, and Jacob is our inner man, the manifestation of that promise. Sum these up in confidence, faith. Listen to Alexander's translation of Matthew 6:9 and 10, Jesus' directions on how to pray:
"Therefore, this is how you shall pray:
'Our heavenly Father, hallowed is your name.
'Your Kingdom is come, Your will is done, As in heaven so also on earth.'"
Notice that these are 'is' and not 'shall' or 'going to be'. 'Is' corresponds to Ferrar Fenton's "must be being" (from the ancient Greek), which is obverse to the King James' sense of injunctional and faithless begging and pleading.
"Hallowed is your name," corresponds to Abraham, God's nature as the Merciful Father.
"Your Kingdom is come," corresponds to Isaac, born of Sarah after her youth was restored.
"Your will is done, as in heaven so also on earth," is Jacob, the manifestation of our/God's thoughts.
Jesus was teaching Exodus 3 as how to pray. He was saying, "Have these attitudes, this confidence."
"And I shall give the nation to be perceived kindly in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that when you go, you do not go empty-handed* (bare). The wife shall ask her neighbor, and the residents of her house for gold plates and silver plates and clothing, so that you may cloth your sons and your daughters, and the Egyptians shall allow it" (Exodus 3:21-22 Alexander). Forgive the past; enter serenity. We have been brought, we are IN the land of milk and honey, therefore Jesus taught, "Give us the bread for our daily need. And leave us serene, just as we also allowed others serenity" (Matthew 6:11-12 Alexander). God will do it, and we will receive it.
One thing about Matthew 6:13's, "And do not pass us through trial, except separate us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory To the end of the universe, of all the universes. Amen!" In Exodus 3:18-20, the King of Egypt, Pharaoh, is, in my humble opinion, OUR IGNORANCE. We have to serve God three days making sacrifice in this ignorance. "Three days" is simply a complete and perfect time. The "three days and three nights" Jesus was in the grave was our lives from our initial death (entering this amnesia) to our final awakening and ascension in perfection!! Pharaoh, our ignorance, hasn't the power to deliver us. The only one who can is "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh"-- God Who is making us!
From Vic Alexander's translation of Exodus (forgive my editing):
Exodus 3
1. And Moses shepherded the herds of Jethro* (Reu-Eil, "God-looked-upon," Genesis 29:32), his king priest, and he fetched him sheep for the altar, and he came to the mountain of God at Khooriv. (Moses in meditation - ed.)
2. And there appeared to him the angel of the Lord through the waves of fire from inside the sun disc, and he saw that the sun disc itself did not burn up.
3. And Moses said, "Let me see, this must be indeed a great vision, that is why the disc is not burning up."
4. And the Lord saw that he was approaching to look closer, and so God called him from inside the disc, and He said, "Moses," and [Moses] said, "Behold, it is I."
5. And He said to him, "Do not come near, take off your sandals, because the land that you stand on is holy ground."
6. And He said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid himself from the faces* that he saw, because he was afraid to look at God.
7. And the Lord said, "I have indeed seen* the slavery of my people in Egypt, and I have heard the agonies of their enslavement, because I know what ails them.
8. "And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to take them up from this land to an expansive and good land, to a land that flows with milk and honey, to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
9. "And now, behold, the agony of the Children of Israel has reached me* and I can also see the persecution by which the Egyptians oppress them.
10. "Now come, I will send you to the Pharaoh, and take my people, the Children of Israel, out of Egypt."
11. And Moses said to God, "Who am I to go to the Pharaoh and bring out the Children of Israel out of Egypt?"
12. And God said to him, "I will be with you and this is the sign that I am sending you, when you conduct the exodus of the nation from Egypt, you shall work here before God on this mountain."
13. And Moses said to God, "Behold, as I go to the Children of Israel and say to them, 'the Lord God of your ancestors has sent me over to you," and they tell me, 'what is His name?' what shall I say to them?"
14. And God said to Moses, "Ahiyeh-Ashur-hiyeh,"* and He said, "this is what you will say to the Children of Israel, "Ahiyeh has sent me over to you."
15. And again God said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the Children of Israel, that the Lord God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, sent me over to you -- this is His name to the end of the universe and this is how you shall commemorate me from this century to the end of all the centuries,
16. "Go and gather all the elders of the Children of Israel and say to them that the Lord God of your ancestors has revealed this to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, so as to say this to you, that you shall memorialize this memorial, of all that He has done for you in Egypt.
17. "And you shall tell them that He brought you out of the enslavement of the Egyptians to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, to the land that flows with milk and honey."
18. "And I shall make them heed your voice, and you and the elders of the House of Israel shall enter into the presence of the king of Egypt and you shall say to him, 'The Lord God of the Hebrews has revealed this to us now that we must go and spend three days in the wilderness and make a sacrifice to our Lord God.'
19. "And I know the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, and it is not in his power to do so.*
20. "And I shall extend my hand and strike the Egyptians and I shall perform wonders among them and then I shall send you [all out.]
21. "And I shall give the nation to be perceived kindly in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that when you go, you do not go empty-handed* (bare).
22. "The wife shall ask her neighbor, and the residents of her house for gold plates and silver plates and clothing, so that you may cloth your sons and your daughters, and the Egyptians shall allow it."
Footnote:
*3:6 Lit. Ar. idiom retained: "Visions" or manifestations.
*3:7 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "Seeingly have seen."
*3:9 Lit. Ar. id.: "Entered upon me."
*3:14 Lit. Aramaic: (1) "Ahiyeh": "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes." (2) "Ashur": "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light." (3) "Hiyeh": "His Coming." (4) "Ahiyeh" and "hiyeh" are related forms of the same word. They mean more than "the Coming." They signify also the "Eternal Presence," "the Ever-Present," and the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come." (5) In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." (6) Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames."
*3:19 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "It was not in his clutching hand."
*3:21 Lit. Ar. id.: "Bare."
From Vic Alexander's translation of Matthew 6 from the ancient Aramaic New Testament:
9. "Therefore, this is how you shall pray:
Our heavenly Father,
hallowed is your name.
10. "Your Kingdom is come.
Your will is done,
As in heaven so also on earth.
11. "Give us the bread for our daily need.
12. "And leave us serene,
just as we also allowed others serenity.
13. "And do not pass us through trial,
except separate us from the evil one.
For yours is the Kingdom,
the Power and the Glory
To the end of the universe,
of all the universes." Amen!
I wrestle with Vic's notes on Exodus 3:14. I have expressed them about two dozen different ways. How would you render "Ahiyeh": "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes;" "Ashur": "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light;" "Hiyeh": "His Coming;" "Ahiyeh" and "hiyeh" are related forms of the same word; They mean more than "the Coming;" They signify also the "Eternal Presence," "the Ever-Present," and the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come;" In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing;" Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames;" as a name?
You are welcome.
"The One Who Comes in His Coming (in the absolute sense of the One Who Comes), the Eternally Present, Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come -- the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing -- the Light Above-the-Flames, the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire -- His coming."
"I am His coming, the beginning spark that kindles the fire, the Light above-the-flames, 'the One who comes in His coming (in the absolute sense of the One Who Comes),' the eternally present, never ceasing intent of the Comer to come -- the uncreated Creator who creates everything from nothing."
"Jesus."
Happy wrestling, complements of the Ancient Aramaic Church.
What tipped me off to Exodus 3 (below) being a lesson on prayer was the word 'brought' in verse 17. In Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic (the only place it occurs!), God directs Moses: "And you shall tell them that He brought you out of the enslavement of the Egyptians to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, to the land that flows with milk and honey" (emphasis mine). Moses was being sent TO the children of Israel in Egypt (the flesh), and from the get-go he was to tell them that God had BROUGHT them--past or past perfect tense--that they are IN "the land that flows with milk and honey," the perfect country.
This brought to mind Abdullah telling Neville Goddard, when Neville had told him that he wanted to visit his family home in Barbados, "You are in Barbados." "I am IN Barbados?" Neville asked incredulously. "Yes. You are IN Barbados, and you went there first class!" Penniless (literally) Neville was perplexed, but agreed to go to sleep each night believing that he was in (literally) Barbados. Neville's brother then happened to want Neville to be at the family home for Christmas that year, and arranged fare and sent expenses for it to happen. Neville's only "work" was to believe that it WAS. I don't find anything like this thinking-from-the-end in any other Bible.
Then I noticed the "you shall memorialize this memorial, of all that He has done for you in Egypt," in verse 16. All that God had done for them in Egypt was cruel slavery, yet He says, "Memorialize this memorial"!! That is the premise and core of Merlyn Carothers' teaching in Prison to Praise and Power in Praise--that God has us where we are for the fulfilling of the Promise. In prison? PRAISE HIM FOR IT; FOR YOU CAN ONLY GET "THERE" FROM "HERE," WHICH HE HAS ARRANGED THROUGH YOU. You are not going anywhere at all until you turn to Him in faith and praise. Memorialize your "here"-- note it, and believe you have been brought "there." I don't find anything like this appreciation in any other Bible.
Moses was being sent to the Children of Israel--all that stuff in the Book of Genesis. I believe the Book of Genesis is about what Moses learned about himself after this event in Exodus. This is an esoteric, symbolic spiritual-value way of looking at the Scriptures. The only person in Genesis is Moses, the germ of God's revelation of Himself in us. Moses is an everyman -- me and/or you. The other people are attitudes we have. Jacob is our inner man, and Israel's children are our God-directed thoughts. Telling the Children of Israel is CONTROLLED, PURPOSEFUL THINKING. YHWH (Jehovah) is God's action among us. Elohim is His imagination (which also happens to be us). Note the "ancestors" and "God-of's" in verses 6, 13, 15, and 16. Abraham was Moses' realization that he was the expression of the Merciful Father, our underlying Godhood. Isaac--Laughter--is the state of fulfillment of God's promise, and Jacob is our inner man, the manifestation of that promise. Sum these up in confidence, faith. Listen to Alexander's translation of Matthew 6:9 and 10, Jesus' directions on how to pray:
"Therefore, this is how you shall pray:
'Our heavenly Father, hallowed is your name.
'Your Kingdom is come, Your will is done, As in heaven so also on earth.'"
Notice that these are 'is' and not 'shall' or 'going to be'. 'Is' corresponds to Ferrar Fenton's "must be being" (from the ancient Greek), which is obverse to the King James' sense of injunctional and faithless begging and pleading.
"Hallowed is your name," corresponds to Abraham, God's nature as the Merciful Father.
"Your Kingdom is come," corresponds to Isaac, born of Sarah after her youth was restored.
"Your will is done, as in heaven so also on earth," is Jacob, the manifestation of our/God's thoughts.
Jesus was teaching Exodus 3 as how to pray. He was saying, "Have these attitudes, this confidence."
"And I shall give the nation to be perceived kindly in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that when you go, you do not go empty-handed* (bare). The wife shall ask her neighbor, and the residents of her house for gold plates and silver plates and clothing, so that you may cloth your sons and your daughters, and the Egyptians shall allow it" (Exodus 3:21-22 Alexander). Forgive the past; enter serenity. We have been brought, we are IN the land of milk and honey, therefore Jesus taught, "Give us the bread for our daily need. And leave us serene, just as we also allowed others serenity" (Matthew 6:11-12 Alexander). God will do it, and we will receive it.
One thing about Matthew 6:13's, "And do not pass us through trial, except separate us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory To the end of the universe, of all the universes. Amen!" In Exodus 3:18-20, the King of Egypt, Pharaoh, is, in my humble opinion, OUR IGNORANCE. We have to serve God three days making sacrifice in this ignorance. "Three days" is simply a complete and perfect time. The "three days and three nights" Jesus was in the grave was our lives from our initial death (entering this amnesia) to our final awakening and ascension in perfection!! Pharaoh, our ignorance, hasn't the power to deliver us. The only one who can is "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh"-- God Who is making us!
From Vic Alexander's translation of Exodus (forgive my editing):
Exodus 3
1. And Moses shepherded the herds of Jethro* (Reu-Eil, "God-looked-upon," Genesis 29:32), his king priest, and he fetched him sheep for the altar, and he came to the mountain of God at Khooriv. (Moses in meditation - ed.)
2. And there appeared to him the angel of the Lord through the waves of fire from inside the sun disc, and he saw that the sun disc itself did not burn up.
3. And Moses said, "Let me see, this must be indeed a great vision, that is why the disc is not burning up."
4. And the Lord saw that he was approaching to look closer, and so God called him from inside the disc, and He said, "Moses," and [Moses] said, "Behold, it is I."
5. And He said to him, "Do not come near, take off your sandals, because the land that you stand on is holy ground."
6. And He said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid himself from the faces* that he saw, because he was afraid to look at God.
7. And the Lord said, "I have indeed seen* the slavery of my people in Egypt, and I have heard the agonies of their enslavement, because I know what ails them.
8. "And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to take them up from this land to an expansive and good land, to a land that flows with milk and honey, to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
9. "And now, behold, the agony of the Children of Israel has reached me* and I can also see the persecution by which the Egyptians oppress them.
10. "Now come, I will send you to the Pharaoh, and take my people, the Children of Israel, out of Egypt."
11. And Moses said to God, "Who am I to go to the Pharaoh and bring out the Children of Israel out of Egypt?"
12. And God said to him, "I will be with you and this is the sign that I am sending you, when you conduct the exodus of the nation from Egypt, you shall work here before God on this mountain."
13. And Moses said to God, "Behold, as I go to the Children of Israel and say to them, 'the Lord God of your ancestors has sent me over to you," and they tell me, 'what is His name?' what shall I say to them?"
14. And God said to Moses, "Ahiyeh-Ashur-hiyeh,"* and He said, "this is what you will say to the Children of Israel, "Ahiyeh has sent me over to you."
15. And again God said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the Children of Israel, that the Lord God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, sent me over to you -- this is His name to the end of the universe and this is how you shall commemorate me from this century to the end of all the centuries,
16. "Go and gather all the elders of the Children of Israel and say to them that the Lord God of your ancestors has revealed this to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, so as to say this to you, that you shall memorialize this memorial, of all that He has done for you in Egypt.
17. "And you shall tell them that He brought you out of the enslavement of the Egyptians to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, to the land that flows with milk and honey."
18. "And I shall make them heed your voice, and you and the elders of the House of Israel shall enter into the presence of the king of Egypt and you shall say to him, 'The Lord God of the Hebrews has revealed this to us now that we must go and spend three days in the wilderness and make a sacrifice to our Lord God.'
19. "And I know the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, and it is not in his power to do so.*
20. "And I shall extend my hand and strike the Egyptians and I shall perform wonders among them and then I shall send you [all out.]
21. "And I shall give the nation to be perceived kindly in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that when you go, you do not go empty-handed* (bare).
22. "The wife shall ask her neighbor, and the residents of her house for gold plates and silver plates and clothing, so that you may cloth your sons and your daughters, and the Egyptians shall allow it."
Footnote:
*3:6 Lit. Ar. idiom retained: "Visions" or manifestations.
*3:7 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "Seeingly have seen."
*3:9 Lit. Ar. id.: "Entered upon me."
*3:14 Lit. Aramaic: (1) "Ahiyeh": "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes." (2) "Ashur": "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light." (3) "Hiyeh": "His Coming." (4) "Ahiyeh" and "hiyeh" are related forms of the same word. They mean more than "the Coming." They signify also the "Eternal Presence," "the Ever-Present," and the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come." (5) In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." (6) Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames."
*3:19 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "It was not in his clutching hand."
*3:21 Lit. Ar. id.: "Bare."
From Vic Alexander's translation of Matthew 6 from the ancient Aramaic New Testament:
9. "Therefore, this is how you shall pray:
Our heavenly Father,
hallowed is your name.
10. "Your Kingdom is come.
Your will is done,
As in heaven so also on earth.
11. "Give us the bread for our daily need.
12. "And leave us serene,
just as we also allowed others serenity.
13. "And do not pass us through trial,
except separate us from the evil one.
For yours is the Kingdom,
the Power and the Glory
To the end of the universe,
of all the universes." Amen!
I wrestle with Vic's notes on Exodus 3:14. I have expressed them about two dozen different ways. How would you render "Ahiyeh": "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes;" "Ashur": "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light;" "Hiyeh": "His Coming;" "Ahiyeh" and "hiyeh" are related forms of the same word; They mean more than "the Coming;" They signify also the "Eternal Presence," "the Ever-Present," and the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come;" In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing;" Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames;" as a name?
You are welcome.
"The One Who Comes in His Coming (in the absolute sense of the One Who Comes), the Eternally Present, Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come -- the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing -- the Light Above-the-Flames, the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire -- His coming."
"I am His coming, the beginning spark that kindles the fire, the Light above-the-flames, 'the One who comes in His coming (in the absolute sense of the One Who Comes),' the eternally present, never ceasing intent of the Comer to come -- the uncreated Creator who creates everything from nothing."
"Jesus."
Happy wrestling, complements of the Ancient Aramaic Church.
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